Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Daring Bakers- Battenberg Cake- Challenge #8

Mandy of What The Fruitcake?!
came to our rescue last minute to present us with the Battenberg Cake
challenge! She highlighted Mary Berry’s techniques and recipes to allow
us to create this unique little cake with ease.

I'm back! And I'm glad to be back. The past year has been challenging and super busy. I lost my passion for being in the kitchen and also just did not have time to cook and bake as well. However, I am now glad to be back at it. I really enjoyed making this cake and look forward to future challenges. I debated back and forth between what flavors I wanted to use for the cake. At first, I was thinking chocolate and salted caramel, then I thought coconut and lime. The winner ending up being the coconut and lime Battenberg. I went with a coconut sponge cake. I adapted the recipe provided by Mandy, but omitted the almonds for shredded coconut and the almond flavoring for some coconut milk. I then made a homemade lime curd for the filling. I decided to make a white chocolate plastic for the covering. The covering was very challenging for two reasons. The day I attempting it, it was warm and second I think I over filled the cake with the curd. In the end though, my friends were impressed and thought the cake was very tasty. Below is the cake, before it was completely devoured.